WestLB Executives Fired Amid Scandal

a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter

Updated July 27, 2007 11:59 p.m. ET

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Thomas Fischer, chief executive of German regional wholesale bank WestLB AG, has been dismissed and will be succeeded on an interim basis by the former CEO of HSH Nordbank AG, Alexander Stuhlmann, in the...